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Free Will
- “Free Will in a Network of Interacting Causal Powers” 2021, forthcoming
- “The Emergence of Free, Intentional Control” 2021, forthcoming
- “How Do We Know That We Are Free?” 2019
- “Free Will,” SEP (with C. Franklin) 2018
- “Probability and Freedom” 2016
- “Free Will and Metaphysics” 2014
- “Agent Causation in a Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics” (with J.D. Jacobs) 2013
- “Agent Causal Theories” 2011
- “Reasons and Causes” 2010
- “Degrees of Freedom” 2009
- “Conscious Willing and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior” 2009
- “Agent-Causal Power” 2008
- “Is It All Just a Matter of Luck?” 2007
- “Freedom With a Human Face” 2005
- “Pastoral Counsel for the Anxious Naturalist: Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves” 2005
- “Reasons Explanation and Agent Control” (with J.R. Churchill) 2004
- “Why Agent Causation?” 1996
- “Agent Causation” 1995
- “Thomas Reid on Free Agency” 1994
- “Alternative Possibilities and Responsibility” 1993
- “Indeterminism and Free Agency: Three Recent Views” 1993
- “On the Transfer of Necessity” 1993
Emergence
- “Emergent Properties” SEP 2020
- “Consciousness, Free Will, and the Science of the Mind” 2018
- “For Emergent Individualism” 2018
- “The Emergence of Personhood: Reflections on The Game of Life” 2015
- “The Philosophical Implications of Emergence” 2012
- “Emergent Individuals and the Resurrection” (with J.D. Jacobs) 2010
- “Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic?” (with J.R. Churchill) 2010
- “Emergence of Group Cognition” (with G. Theiner) 2010
- “Nonreductive Physicalism or Emergent Dualism? The Argument from Mental Causation” (with J.R. Churchill) 2010
- “The Metaphysics of Emergence” (with Hong Yu Wong) 2005
- “Groundwork for an Emergentist Account of the Mental” 2003
- “Causality, Mind, and Free Will” 2000
- “Emergent Individuals” (with J.D. Jacobs) 2003
- “Emergent Properties” 1994
Theistic Arguments
- “Cosmological Argument” 2021, forthcoming
- “Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything?” 2013
- “The Argument from Consciousness Revisited” (with Kevin Kimble) 2011
- “Is God’s Necessity Necessary?” 2010
- “And This All Men Call God” 2004
- “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: Plantinga on the Self-Defeat of Evolutionary Naturalism” 2001
- “An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism?” 1994
- “From First Efficient Cause to God: Scotus on the Identification Stage of the Cosmological Argument” 1996
- “Scotus on the Existence of a First Efficient Cause” 1993
Epistemology of Religious Belief
Reviews
- Ted Sider, Writing the Book of the World (with N. Montgomery), NDPR 2013
- Peter Unger, All the Power in the World, NDPR 2007
- William Rowe, Can God Be Free?, NDPR 2005
- George Molnar, Powers, NDPR 2004
- Paul Pietroski, Causing Actions (with G. Theiner) Phil Review 2002
- Derk Pereboom, Living Without Free Will, PQ 2003
- Richard Double, Metaphilosophy and Free Will, Thomas Pink, The Psychology of Freedom, andRobert Kane, The Significance of Free Will, TLS 1997
- John Martin Fischer, The Metaphysics of Free Will, IJPS 1997
- Peter van Inwagen, Metaphysics, Phil Review 1995
- Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge, Phil Review 1993
- Brian Leftow, Time and Eternity, ACPQ 1992
- Christopher Hughes, On a Complex Theory of a Simple God (with N. Kretzmann), F&P 1992